Design Project - Day 1

Members of the group: Pablo Tello Zuluaga, Lorenna Lancheros and Andrés Llinás. 


DEFINE PHASE:

• Our game will be designed for elementary students. 
• The game difficulty won't be too hard but the game will be relatively long. 

• A game is successful when it is fun to play (not boring). 
• A game is successful when there is some intelligence involved. 
• A game is successful when the theme/objective is appropriate for the people playing it. 
• A game is successful when there is some sort of price for the winner. 
• A game is successful when there is at least a little bit iof competition between competitors.
• A game is successful when there are different stages with different objectives.


RESEARCH PHASE: 

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5D_UjRb8u4

• Good: what I liked about this skeeball machine is that it perfectly designed. As the kids played the ball went perfectly into the holes and automatically went back to the player to throw the ball again. Very well thought. 

• Bad: The holes where the ball is supposed to go in are a little to close or too far away from each other when they are supposed to be at an equal distance. 


• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0bBaJU_seU

• Good: This pinball machine is beautifully made because it is made put of wood (which is a lot harder than cardboard). The place where the ball falls on to the board is really well thought because with one little push the ball falls automatically.

• Bad: The paddles are really small, they should be bigger. 


• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPpvuSkoS4A

• Good: This machine is really awesome because you just need to pull and let go a handle for the ball to go into the nail forest. Then you just need to record your score and see if you are able to win. 

• Bad: The nails should be placed more vertically for the ball to go freely trough the nail forest. 


IDEATION PHASE:

• Our idea is to make a Pachiko Wario Brothers machine (like on one video 3). Our plan is to have 10 slots (each one with the numbers from 1-10) each player need to shoot the ball 5 times and at the end the one that gets the highest score wins the game and remains. The other two need to change places with another two students. This is really fun because it is a probablity game, you never know where the ball is going to end. This "luck" trait of this game makes a lot more fun and exciting. Anybody can win. There are no special skills or any ability that you need to have in order to play this game except pulling and letting go a handle. Elementary students love this type of games because there is competition. 

• The thing that might go wrong is that the handle could break. Without a handle there is no game because the strength that you use to pull the handle pushes the ball into a certain place in the board and from there it starts falling. Another thing that could go wrong is that the nail are badly placed, making the ball fal into the same place all the time. That is not the objective of the game so we need to make sure that the nai,ls that we are going to place in the board are placed correctly.